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Japanese insurance groups vulnerable to catastrophe and stock losses
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Japanese non-life insurers are likely to come under rating pressure if insured catastrophe losses rise unexpectedly, or the domestic stock market falls sharply before they are able to restore their capitalisation, according to Fitch Ratings.
Fitch said that Thailand flood net losses of three Japanese major non-life groups, Tokio Marine Group, MS&AD Insurance Group and NKSJ Group, totalled ¥513bn as of the end of March 2012.
"This loss is
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